The global laboratory information systems (LIS) market is growing moderately, driven by increasing demand for advanced healthcare monitoring systems, better efficiency of laboratories, and hospitals and laboratories prioritizing for information systems. The LIS plays an important role in generating information effectively and accurately, which helps in clinical decisions.

Driven by technological improvement in healthcare services across the globe, the market for LIS is expected to see moderate growth over the forthcoming years. Rising need for improved laboratory efficiency, especially in the healthcare sector, is playing an important role in the overall growth of the market for LIS. There are several other factors encouraging the market, such as significant investments from healthcare IT companies and surge in number of hospitals realizing the importance of LIS.

Rising need for integrated healthcare information systems, increase in healthcare initiatives by governments and continuous investments by major healthcare players also significantly impact the growth of the market. The LIS market is also poised for growth driven by major opportunities in emerging economies that hold significant potential in terms of demand of efficient and high quality laboratory information, and the need for powerful IT systems in diagnostic and medical laboratories.

Significant increase in adoption of smart phones is one of the key trends in the LIS market. The market is expected to witness rapid growth in demand of mobile based applications and solutions. In addition, new product launches is another major trend witnessed in the LIS market.

However, the adoption rate of LIS is still low in many regions, primarily due to the high costs incurred in implementation, maintenance, and up-gradation services; poor in-house IT skilled resources and complexity of system; and inadequate IT infrastructure. These key challenges are hindering the growth of LIS market.

Despite of these challenges, the market still holds significant growth potential, mainly driven by increasing need for integrated IT infrastructure in medical and diagnostic laboratories, development in remote patient monitoring and various healthcare related initiatives by emerging economies.

The global LIS market is in growing phase in most of the countries and but there are few large vendors holding the significant market share. Many new players are also entering the market, and the consolidation of small players with large players is shaping the competitive landscape. Competition is tough and market players are trying to sustain themselves by differentiating their LIS products from their competitors.

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